>Still takes up a friggin desk all on its own, too.
Great picture though. I still use one at home. The other thing about using them in an office environment is that while well shielded on the viewing side, some of them shot enough high-energy emr out the back that your co-workers would give birth to the next generation of x-men if they weren't completely sterilized.
It seems pretty inefficient to carry the fuel mass for the retro rocket braking all the way up out of the gravity well into orbit and then back down into the gravity well so you can use it in the last kilometer of the flight. There doesn't seem any way to stop at a gas station on the way down, but maybe they are planning on lifting the fuel to orbit on non-reusable tankers, which also seems inefficient. In something like this, inefficient equates to really fucking expensive.
I took the point to be that manufacturing costs of 50% of retail are fairly high. I suppose that when you are looking at a razor/razor blade marketing model that works out, but it seems quite a bit higher than other electronic gadgets.
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>my terminal has a pink background with black text
Hmm... Anyone who even knows the "set mode co80" command is immediately suspect. I suppose that black on pink is less evil than, say, reverse blinking magenta on chartreuse. Maybe its time to upgrade my monochrome monitor and Hercules Graphics card.
We continue to purchase new workstation machines with XP licenses. We will continue to do so as long as they are available. When they aren't available, we'll probably start buying new machines with Windows 7 or 8, but we sure as hell won't be upgrading any existing machines. All of our business software will still run on 98. The only program I own personally that requires Vista is Halo 2.
>Maybe if the French were more like their leader instead of being shiftless, lazy bums who'd rather shirk work and live off the dole than to actually perform the duties they were hired for, perhaps they could have participated in the democracy.
Turnout in the 2007 French Presidential election was 84% of registered voters and 77% of all citizens eligible to vote. In the 2008 United States Presidential election, turnout was 62% of citizens eligible to vote. Voter turnout in lower house parliamentary/congressional elections since 1960 has averaged 76% in France and 54% in the United States. (Source: Wikipedia)
Clearly the French participate in their democracy in significantly higher numbers than Americans. Perhaps you could have looked into this before slagging them for not participating.
Demanding non-relevant documents is a legal method of harassment. It wastes both the time and money of the defendant.
From a quick look at the pleadings.pdf above, this appears to be a civil matter. IANAL, and especially IANACanadianL, but in most civil actions, you get to charge for the documents requested/subpoenaed in this sort of deal. Most organizations of any size have a written policy about how much is charged per page for documents. Ours is $1.00 per page. Often, the plaintiff finds it easier and cheaper to hire a mobile copy service to go in and do it. We put the requested documents in a bare room with a functional electrical outlet and have an employee watch them like a hawk to make sure nothing is altered or damaged.
Wrong. Evolution is an observed fact. It has been observed in nature and in the laboratory. You have stated a false premise, so any conclusions drawn from your premise are also false. Your remaining paragraphs continue this pattern of logical fallacy. Perhaps you should learn something about evolutionary biology that isn't parroting the mouth breathers at Answers In Genesis.
>I knew it! I knew it! Cloning advocates are members of the Cult of Cthulhu! They are perfecting their methods so that they can clone The Great Old Ones from their "stone houses" (fossils) and bring us all to lamentation and ruin!
Not all of us. It's you unbelievers that will be eaten first.
Maybe, but as far as I know, only the Warriors ever put it on a professional sports team jersey. Besides, that's how Sam Spade addressed an envelope in the opening of the Maltese Falcon,and he sure wasn't sending a letter to New York.
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He represents the wing-nut, right half of San Diego county including Borrego Springs, El Cajon, La Mesa, Santee and other hot spots. His web site has a nice picture of the San Diego skyline, but I guess no one told him it is not in his district. OTOH there isn't anything in El Cajon that I would take a picture of. He doesn't list an email address on his website but he does have an email form. You need to be thinking like B1 Bob Dornan to get elected from this turf.
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>A program to make look CRT like teletype output (or DEC LA-36)??? Or to make CRT look like Hollerith cards???
No problem, just install one of these bad boys.
>Still takes up a friggin desk all on its own, too.
Great picture though. I still use one at home. The other thing about using them in an office environment is that while well shielded on the viewing side, some of them shot enough high-energy emr out the back that your co-workers would give birth to the next generation of x-men if they weren't completely sterilized.
It seems pretty inefficient to carry the fuel mass for the retro rocket braking all the way up out of the gravity well into orbit and then back down into the gravity well so you can use it in the last kilometer of the flight. There doesn't seem any way to stop at a gas station on the way down, but maybe they are planning on lifting the fuel to orbit on non-reusable tankers, which also seems inefficient. In something like this, inefficient equates to really fucking expensive.
I wonder how they feel about Buddy Holly
"Love is love, and not fade away."
I took the point to be that manufacturing costs of 50% of retail are fairly high. I suppose that when you are looking at a razor/razor blade marketing model that works out, but it seems quite a bit higher than other electronic gadgets.
>Mod me a troll
OK. Took care of that for you. Oh wait.....
>Why are they deliberately fucking up their OS?
A question asked by many ever since Windows ME.
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Twitter is not a form of communication.
>my terminal has a pink background with black text
Hmm... Anyone who even knows the "set mode co80" command is immediately suspect. I suppose that black on pink is less evil than, say, reverse blinking magenta on chartreuse. Maybe its time to upgrade my monochrome monitor and Hercules Graphics card.
Mine had a blinking, green cursor and was, therefore, good. It was the white and amber cursors that were evil.
We continue to purchase new workstation machines with XP licenses. We will continue to do so as long as they are available. When they aren't available, we'll probably start buying new machines with Windows 7 or 8, but we sure as hell won't be upgrading any existing machines. All of our business software will still run on 98. The only program I own personally that requires Vista is Halo 2.
Wow, the concept is so foreign to the French they had to borrow the word from English!
Latin actually. Same place English got it.
>Maybe if the French were more like their leader instead of being shiftless, lazy bums who'd rather shirk work and live off the dole than to actually perform the duties they were hired for, perhaps they could have participated in the democracy.
Turnout in the 2007 French Presidential election was 84% of registered voters and 77% of all citizens eligible to vote. In the 2008 United States Presidential election, turnout was 62% of citizens eligible to vote. Voter turnout in lower house parliamentary/congressional elections since 1960 has averaged 76% in France and 54% in the United States. (Source: Wikipedia)
Clearly the French participate in their democracy in significantly higher numbers than Americans. Perhaps you could have looked into this before slagging them for not participating.
Demanding non-relevant documents is a legal method of harassment. It wastes both the time and money of the defendant.
From a quick look at the pleadings.pdf above, this appears to be a civil matter. IANAL, and especially IANACanadianL, but in most civil actions, you get to charge for the documents requested/subpoenaed in this sort of deal. Most organizations of any size have a written policy about how much is charged per page for documents. Ours is $1.00 per page. Often, the plaintiff finds it easier and cheaper to hire a mobile copy service to go in and do it. We put the requested documents in a bare room with a functional electrical outlet and have an employee watch them like a hawk to make sure nothing is altered or damaged.
>Since evolution is not a fact,?P>
Wrong. Evolution is an observed fact. It has been observed in nature and in the laboratory. You have stated a false premise, so any conclusions drawn from your premise are also false. Your remaining paragraphs continue this pattern of logical fallacy. Perhaps you should learn something about evolutionary biology that isn't parroting the mouth breathers at Answers In Genesis.
They only come in second in most of the STD rate categories. I guess there's always room for improvement.
Being hung would be a much, much slower way to die.
Death by Snoo-Snoo?
I thought facebook was an intelligence gathering operation run by the CIA.
It might be good for gathering stupid, but hardly intelligence.
I though all the terrorists were hiding in the high-traffic (pr0n) Usenet newsgroups. I'm soooo out of touch.
>Don't bitch, you can't even upgrade Windows Mobile at any price, nor Blackberry's OS
I recently upgraded by T-Mobile Blackberry's OS. Free, as in free software. The downloads are available here. Did I mention they are free?
>I knew it! I knew it! Cloning advocates are members of the Cult of Cthulhu! They are perfecting their methods so that they can clone The Great Old Ones from their "stone houses" (fossils) and bring us all to lamentation and ruin!
Not all of us. It's you unbelievers that will be eaten first.
C'thulhu fhtagn.
Maybe, but as far as I know, only the Warriors ever put it on a professional sports team jersey. Besides, that's how Sam Spade addressed an envelope in the opening of the Maltese Falcon,and he sure wasn't sending a letter to New York.
Your IQ has just placed you within 1 stdev of mainstream intelligence. Prepare to laugh at fart jokes, cry at the plight of 2 dimensional characters, and rabidly justify gaping plot holes with the theory of intelligent design! We the broadcast executives in collaboration with the brain slug planet would like to thank you for your added support.
This Public Service Announcement brought to you by Slurm. Remember, "It's Highly Addictive!"
He represents the wing-nut, right half of San Diego county including Borrego Springs, El Cajon, La Mesa, Santee and other hot spots. His web site has a nice picture of the San Diego skyline, but I guess no one told him it is not in his district. OTOH there isn't anything in El Cajon that I would take a picture of. He doesn't list an email address on his website but he does have an email form. You need to be thinking like B1 Bob Dornan to get elected from this turf.